Planning for coastal resilience best practices for calamitous times /

محفوظ في:
التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Beatley, Timothy, 1957-
مؤلف مشترك: ebrary, Inc
التنسيق: الكتروني كتاب الكتروني
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c2009.
الموضوعات:
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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جدول المحتويات:
  • Introduction : climate change and coastal resilience
  • Coastal resilience : what is it?
  • The vulnerability of coastal communities
  • Coastal resilience : key planning dimensions
  • Barriers to coastal resilience
  • Understanding the political setting and context
  • Principles of coastal resilience
  • Tools and techniques for enhancing and strengthening coastal resilience
  • Worcester County, Maryland
  • Cannon Beach and the Northwest Oregon Coast
  • Palm Beach County, Florida
  • Charleston County, South Carolina
  • New Orleans, Louisiana, and resilience after Katrina
  • Brief coastal resilience profiles : La Plata, Maryland : rebuilding after a devastating tornado ; The villages at Loreto Bay, Baja California Sur : a model of a new, resilient, and sustainable coastal town ; Kinston, North Carolina : sustainable redevelopment and green infrastructure ; Solara : solar-powered affordable housing in San Diego County, California ; Maui County, Hawaii : resilient island paradise ; Noisette, North Charleston, South Carolina : large-scale coastal redevelopment with resilience and sustainability at the core
  • Conclusion : the promise of coastal resilience.